The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 3
He was not bad-hearted, so he showed him the nearest way to the home of the Genii on the top of Mount Sumi.
Who acts: Geni · What happens: not be, show · To what, where: nearest way, Pei, top
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geni), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hearted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hearted | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hearted | advmod |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hearted | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 6 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 showed | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 showed | nsubj |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hearted | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 showed | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 home | det |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Genii | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Genii | det |
| 20 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 home | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 top | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 top | det |
| 23 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Mount | case |
| 25 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 top | nmod |
| 26 | Sumi | Sumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mount | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Geni | hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Geni | the nearest way | Pei | the top of Mount | to the home of the Genii | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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